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Government, Health Care & Hospital Law, Criminal

While many other nations around the world have enacted broad reforms in recent decades to replace criminal sanctions with heal...


A federal judge’s recent opinion striking down California’s assault weapons ban has gained attention for its contrarian view t...



COVID-19 restrictions required adaption in all walks of life, particularly in public forums. The justice system learned to ada...


There once was a time when Angelenos with the misfortune of ending up in a car crash could at the very least count on an offic...



Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary

Revelations III

Jun. 7, 2021

Lately I’ve been thinking about judges searching for anonymity when taking a beating by a “higher” court.


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Covid Columns

Policymakers are preparing to make decisions before the California constitutional deadline of June 15 to pass the 2021-22 Cali...



Legal Education, Military Law

Two Army veterans, suffering from physical and mental injuries were discharged with less than honorable characterizations to t...


Constitutional Law, U.S. Supreme Court

A unanimous Supreme Court held that if the cops want to get inside your house and take your guns, they’re going to need a warr...



Last November, I was supposed to go home. I had served 17 years in prison for a crime I committed at age 20. I was granted cle...


A recent explosion of social science research documents the collateral consequences of pretrial incarceration, such as the los...



Until recently, individual states led the initial push to comprehensively regulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.


U.S. Supreme Court, Environmental & Energy

A recent Supreme Court ruling may give oil companies an advantage when it comes to removing climate change lawsuits to federal...



Criminal

Immediately upon taking office last December, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón announced several abrupt and controv...


Academics and industry groups on Friday told H. Thomas Byron III, rules committee chief counsel with the Administrative Office...



Criminal, California Supreme Court

The recent guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial demonstrates the importance of having a diverse and representative jury. ...


Technology, Administrative/Regulatory

If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that high-speed internet is crucial to our daily lives — and that’s unlikely to c...



Three California civil rights enforcement agencies are effectively missing in action when it comes to protecting people with d...


U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law

In Caniglia v. Strom, 20-157, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari to decide whether there is a “community caretaker” exc...



Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, California Courts of Appeal

Revelations II

May 3, 2021

The intriguing title of my February column “Revelations” was an intimate look (not exposé) on how appellate opinions are “proc...


U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard argument in a case asking whether you have the right to privacy when you make charitab...



Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, California Courts of Appeal

As presiding justice of the 4th District Court of Appeal, Division 2, in Riverside, I come into contact with the men and women...


Tax, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

State-licensed marijuana businesses have high IRS audit rates and face big challenges to minimize their federal tax burden. On...



The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office created a process to prioritize examination of trademark applications covering certain CO...


An upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case is highlighting the need to pay greater attention to the justices’ conflicts of interest a...



The board of trustees of the State Bar of California will be reviewing the Annual Discipline Report on Friday. During the meet...


Military Law, Law Practice

The veteran community has unique needs as a client base which differ from civilian clientele. Consider some examples: A vetera...



Judges and Judiciary, Covid Columns

When U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney dismissed charges against defendants in the Central District of California for the fail...


Judges and Judiciary, Covid Columns

Los Angeles County Superior Court’s restraining order courts in a year of emergency.



U.S. Supreme Court, Criminal, Constitutional Law

The Supreme Court is poised to review the standard for a defendant to successfully show that an error in federal constitutiona...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Letters, Law Practice

Ralph Baxter and Zachariah DeMeola believe the legal system is broken. Their arguments for why and how nonlawyer ownership of ...